The Coffin-Carrying Street Parade Incident involving the Seventh Guard Second Brigade ended with its final victory after receiving the personal approval of the Phoenix Spirit Queen.
However, the impact of the Coffin-Carrying Street Parade Incident did not end. Instead, as it continued to ferment, it grew ever more far-reaching.
The Phoenix Spirit Race's Military Affairs Department had reacted slowly to this matter. Nor did it possess institutions like Great Zhou's Heavenly Patrol Division or Secret Directorate to swiftly respond to and handle such incidents.
Still, its investigative agencies were quite efficient.
Very quickly, they uncovered the truth of the matter.
The truth was—former Minister of Military Affairs Chen Denglong had not embezzled or withheld even a shred of the pensions for the fallen Phoenix Spirit Guards. He had merely coldly rejected the Seventh Guard Second Brigade's request to sell off surplus spoils of war.
It could be said that, based on this truth alone, Minister of Military Affairs Chen Denglong had been grievously wronged by being stripped of his post—outrageously wronged, even!
Yet from another angle of the truth, he had not been wronged.
The truth uncovered by the Military Affairs Department and the Prime Minister's Mansion regarding Chen Jiawei's appearance on Chiwu Mountain and his flight without fighting the Beast King was this—Chen Jiawei had been acting under a military order from the Military Affairs Department, sent to Red Parasol City on official business.
And when he faced the Beast King, he had not fled without fighting. Rather, he had risked his life to lure the Beast King away, preventing further casualties.
That was the official public statement.
Never mind whether the common folk of Phoenix City believed it—the Phoenix Spirit Race's nobles and high officials did not, because they knew more of the inside story.
This so-called truth